Ask New 2.4 Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Anything

Linus keeps hinting (declaring, even) that he's nearly ready to work full-time on the 2.5 development branch of his kernel, and hand the 2.4 kernel off to Marcelo Tosatti. Marcelo's graciously agreeed to answer questions (you might want to read some of his mailing list contributions first), so here's your chance to ask him what he'll do in the famous footsteps of Linus and Alan Cox, and how he got there. Please only put one question per post; we'll pass along the top-rated comments to Marcelo for his answers, and hear back from him shortly.

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Do you.

[Phaze3]

Do you intend to add any completly new features to this kernel or just maintain the current ones?

VM and EXT3

[scharkalvin]

Which VM code will you keep in the kernel? Will you use what Alan has been using in his AC kernels or keep the new VM touted by Linus? Will EXT3 be built in or do you prefer a different journaling file system?

Am I too late?

[GauteL]

I looked over some questions, and there are a couple of pretty obvious ones that either aren't their, or hidden due to that pesky moderation.

For instance:
1. The "lousy magazine"-question: Who would you rather be stuck with on a desert island?

2. The "bitter old sysadmin"-question: You are 18, do you punk even know what Multics or VMS is?

3. The "trick"-question: what do you prefer, emacs or vi? (trick question because we all know emacs is superior).

Re:security patches in the Changelogs?

[cymen]

Will you be following Alan Cox's lead by withholding security patch information from the kernel Changelogs?

How is this flamebait? Come one now, stupid moderators. At least the smart moderators modded up. Good question and I hope it does get answered.